Partition Suit – Interim Injunction – Plaintiffs claim partition of properties and fixed deposit – Allegation of attempts to alienate properties – Temporary injunction sought – Trial court grants limited injunction – Appeal against the interim injunction orders – Appellants contend orders inadequate – Appeal before High Court – High Court exami...
Service Law - Employment Law – Dispute regarding payment of interest on arrears following a settlement – Appellant, Bridge and Roof Company (India) Ltd., challenges direction to pay interest to the respondent, a retired employee, for delay in payment of arrears pursuant to a settlement – Settlement between the company and its employees under the Industrial Dispute Act was dated 3...
Family Law - Hindu Marriage Act - Marriage declared null and void under Section 11 - Challenge to the judgment and decree of nullity - Examination of evidence regarding the existence of custom or usage permitting marriages within the sapinda relationship - Failure to establish the custom - Marriage within sapinda relationship held to be null and void. [Para 1-30]
Rights of Children Bo...
Administrative Law – Transfer of cases between benches of the Central Administrative Tribunal – Chairman’s power to transfer cases – Requirements of a reasoned order – Orders transferring cases should specify reasons – Orders lacking reasoning violate principles of natural justice. [Para 23-31]
Decision – Orders dated March 2, 2023, and March ...
Rule 15 of Order XXXII CPC – Scope of ‘enquiry’ – Suit instituted by a mentally unsound person through a next friend – Applicant’s unwillingness to proceed with the suit – Trial court’s ‘enquiry’ into mental capacity – Certain answers found irrational – Application dismissed – Challenge to the order in revision. [Para 1-...
Procedural Irregularities – Application to sue as an indigent person rejected due to non-compliance with Order XXXIII, Rules 2 and 3 of the CPC at the initial stage of litigation – Subsequent application (I.A.No.1315 of 2017) filed two years after the original suit was claimed to address deficiencies, but failed due to lack of initial compliance – Trial court found significant pr...
Maintenance under Hindu Marriage Act – Appeal against an order regarding maintenance – Husband and wife filed appeals against an order dated 23.02.2023, where the husband was directed to pay Rs.40,000/- per month for the child’s maintenance, while the wife’s maintenance claim was denied. The wife sought enhancement of child’s maintenance to Rs.60,000/- per month and i...
Writ Petition – Inclusion of petitioner’s name in the birth certificate – Refusal by the Corporation based on a 15-year rule – Dispute over the petitioner’s name not being mentioned in her birth certificate – Validity of refusal challenged. [Para 1-5]
Rule Interpretation – Examination of whether the Municipal Corporation can refuse the inclusi...
Misuse of Official Symbols – Unauthorized use of stickers and artifacts containing emblems and phrases like “Govt of India”, “Government of Tamil Nadu”, “High Court”, and “Police” on private vehicles – Petitioner seeks directions for removal and penal action. [Para 2]
Previous Directions – Reference to order in W.P.No.14697 of 20...
Cooperative Bank Employees and Election Duty – The court examined whether employees of cooperative banks, registered but not established under or controlled by a governmental statute, could be requisitioned for election duty under Sections 159 and 26 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 – Found that such employees do not meet the criteria specified under Section 159(2), which ...